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...members of the class of 2006 look forward to being ushered into life after college by world leaders, journalists, or other public figures, both Harvard students and those at peer institutions have expressed disappointment with their schools’ choices of commencement and class day speakers. One Harvard senior said he was unhappy with the choice of Jim Lehrer as this year’s Commencement Day speaker. “[Jim Lehrer] is an insightful journalist...I only wish we had someone more inspirational,” said Todd Van Stolk-Riley ’06 of this year?...
...with six grown children who has lived in the apartments since their inception, also mourns the changes to what were once sparkling new models of low-income redevelopment.“Later it was beautiful people. Now, so-so,” she says. Pirugo, not a native English speaker, means before.‘I WANT A NEW HOUSE’ The Charlesview apartments are a mix of market rate rentals and Section-8 housing, a federal program for low-wage earners that requires them to attribute 30 percent of their income to housing while the city subsidizes...
...undergraduates and one local high school student for their contributions to the black community. The event’s purpose, Matory said, was “telling [honorees] they have done well, and encouraging them to do more.” Each undergraduate recipient was honored by an ABHW speaker as well as a brief video presentation about their lives. Recipients were given a plaque praising their work as well as a $500 scholarship. Senior award winners briefly addressed those in attendance. “Be truthful, be yourself, be humble,” said award recipient Lawrence E. Adjah...
...Back the Night” (TBTN), the well-intentioned campaign against sexual violence, necessarily begs the question, who is the night being taken back from?In 1999, Ross G. Douthat ’02, now a reporter at the Atlantic Monthly, chronicled the campus event, which featured an invited speaker who accused conservatives of wanting “to lock up pregnant black women.” She then compared a law permitting a woman to defend herself against a would-be rapist with a woman’s right not to be besieged by “the aggressive...
...middle school and show New York City what a girl from Queens could do: namely, spell. They were late, and I was nervous. Turns out it was never meant to be, because when I spelled ‘embolism’ as ‘embulism’ (the speaker mispronounced it, I swear), the bell rang and my career as a competitive speller was D-O-N-E, with a capital D. The girl next to me got the word measles, and I left the stage tearfully.I promise I’ve moved on.Since the event seven years...